This is just a reminder for those reporting scores to OC Varsity.com that per CIF rules, scores and stats from scrimmages should not be reported on a team’s win-loss record and for a player’s seasonal stat total.
According to CIF, teams are allowed one scrimmage and a maximum of 20 matches. Teams are also only allowed to be entered in no more than three tournaments.
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At Monday’ CIF State Federated Council meeting, where all state-wide CIF rules are adopted or amended, the Trinity League proposal that would delete “athletically motivated” language from transfer rules did not pass. Thus, a transfer that is determined to be athletically motivated in whole or in part could cause a student-athlete’s eligibility to be denied at his or her new school.
The CIF-Southern Section has lessened its emphasis on that athletically motivated angle in recent months — as it should. Every transfer could be looked upon to be athletically motivated, even a little bit. Let the kids play!
Also, a proposal to change the structure of the CIF State Championship Bowl Games did not pass, so the selection process and number of teams selected will be unchanged. The Regionals Round of the state football playoffs is in place this year and next year as a two-year pilot program.
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St. John Bosco of Bellflower has forfeited its four victories because it used an ineligible player, according to this report by the Long Beach Press Telegram.
St. John Bosco’s record goes to 0-4.
The Braves, a Trinity League team, were 4-0 and are ranked No. 5 this week in the CIF-Southern Section Pac-5 Division.
The CIF-Southern Section this morning had not received confirmation about the forfeits from Bosco. Schools in the CIF-SS report such infractions themselves to the CIF-SS office. (The polls were completed before the forfeitures were reported Monday evening.)
The Press Telegram report quotes Bosco coach Jason Negro as saying the school used a player who already had used up his eight semesters of athletic eligibility.
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A mediation meeting is scheduled between the two parties, Diocese of Orange/Mater Dei and the CIF-Southern Section, as part of the legal complaint flied by the Diocese, on behalf of Mater Dei, against the CIF-Southern Section.
The complaint alleges unfair business practices by the CIF-SS office against Mater Dei.
A mediation typically is a legal effort to resolve an ongoing dispute or disputes between two or more parties.
Perhaps this will be the final chapter?
How this all got started can be found here.
Well, it was mostly a “Meet Rob” deal. Rob Wigod, the new CIF-Southern Section commissioner who had been an assistant commissioner for several years, introduced the CIF-SS staff past and present who were there, his family, and some former coaches when he was an athlete and guys he coached with at Lakewood and Los Alamitos.
Probably 30 media people in attendance, all of whom received Blue Books (the CIF-SS constitution and collection of rules and by-laws), the CIF-SS football schedule book, and some instructions on how to vote on CIF-SS rankings. I bet that fewer than half of the media group will ever open the Blue Book … sadly, that would put the media group not far behind school administrators in that category.
Of the group, only four asked questions (focused on the free hot wings, were ya, fellas?). My questions, and Wigod’s answers — and paraphrasing some here, so as to get to the meat of it …
Senior receiver Sedric Hill has been granted athletic eligibility at Edison for the upcoming football season, a CIF State appeals panel ruled today. He will play in Edison’s season opener on Friday in Hawaii.
Hill transferred during the spring from Mater Dei, where he was an All-Trinity League first-team selection in 2010. His transfer was not approved by the CIF-Southern Section as the section office ruled that Hill’s transfer was athletically motivated.
According to CIF-SS rule 510, a transfer that appears to be athletically motivated, in part or in whole, will bar the transferred student-athlete from gaining athletic eligibility at the student’s new school.
Hill attended the CIF State hearing with his father and spoke on his own behalf. Immediately after the hearing he boarded a plane to Maui where Edison opens its 2011 season Friday against Baldwin of Wailuku.
Glenn Martinez, most recently a vice principal at Charter Oak of Covina, is the new assistant commissioner in charge of football, wrestling and baseball at the CIF-Southern Section office. He replaces Rob Wigod, who was promoted to commissioner upon the retirement of Jim Staunton.
Martinez is best known as the very successful baseball coach at Bishop Amat of La Puente.
For the CIF-SS release on the hiring of Martinez, click here.
It was a position for which many top-shelf athletic persons applied. A very-rumored name in the mix was Servite’s highly-regarded athletic director/wrestling coach Alan Clinton. Upon our most-recent conversation with him, Clinton said he had not inquired about the CIF-SS assistant commissioner post.
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Click on the photo to find Steve Fryer's rankings of the top athletic programs in Orange County.
Montclair Prep, a private school in Van Nuys, has eliminated its athletics program … read the LA Times story here.
The reason — finances.
A couple of stats not in that story — the school won four CIF-Southern Section football championships, the most recent in 1994; won several CIF-SS boys basketball championships, including in 2005 and ’06; and won six CIF-SS baseball titles.
Montclair Prep has produced some MLB players like Torey Lovullo.
A Montclair Prep student-athlete who wishes to transfer likely won’t have to make the usually-required change of address to become ineligible at the school to which the student-athlete would transfer, as a hardship waiver should be easily acquired. And, like any other transfer, a transfer can be made without the change of address if the move is made prior to the first day of the student-athlete’s sophomore year.
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Our selection for OC player of the year was Ty Moore, Jr. OF/P at Mater Dei … he was 10-2 with 55 KS, and batted .510 with 37 RBIs.
The CIF-SS Division 1 player of the year was Henry Owens, Sr. P at Edison … 12-1 with three saves, 1.15 ERA and 140 Ks. He batted 1.000 — he was 1 for 1.
We have a rule — you must be your league’s player of the year to be county player of the year. Owens was not Sunset League player of the year; that was shared by Edison’s Christian Lopes and Eric Snyder.
Moore was Trinity League player of the year.
Nothing against Owens, who might be the best pitcher I have seen in OC baseball since 1990. Owens also is a young man of great character, a team leader. He possessed a rare combination of nasty competitiveness with a tranquil calmness.
Moore was one of the top pitchers, too, in the county and probably the county’s finest hitter — that also is a rare combination.
It was a difficult selection.
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The Chargers defeated Orange Lutheran 4-3 in the second round of the Division I playoffs.
Both teams combined for 7 errors. Sean Whiteman walked in the go-ahead run in the 6th, and Henry Owens took it over from there. The Miami Hurricanes commit struck out three batters in two innings of work to pick up the save.
Edison will be on the road to face Lakewood on Friday in the quarterfinals.
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